A fight broke out in a Riyadh mosque between Saudis and Egyptians after a Saudi clergyman cursed Egyptian Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi during today's Friday prayers sermon. The fight, uploaded on to YouTube, has gone viral and the tug-of-words continues online.

The 46-second video, uploaded on several accounts on YouTube, has been the talk of the Saudi blogosphere today. One version, uploaded today by umum0707, has been watched more than 750,000 times at the time of writing this post. It shows a man in Saudi garb taking off his headgear, the agal, and hitting another man, an Egyptian, inside Al Ferdous Mosque, after the latter objected to el-Sisi being cursed. A commotion follows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_l5tvTNe8

el-Sisi, who is also the First Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt now, played a leading role in the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member.